Texas Music Round-Up: Texas Music Mailorder Catalog

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The Texas Christmas Collection
This is a very special Christmas Album. It's a tremendous collection of Texas talent performing an eclectic selection of great Christmas songs. From Willie Nelson's enchanting Silent Night, to Beto and the Fairlanes salsified version of the classic We Three Kings, to the R & B holiday hits of Marcia Ball and Rusty Weir, to a haunting reggae version of Little Drummer Boy, to a blistering rock rendition of Ring Christmas Bells, to Eric Johnson's delicate treatment of What Child Is This?, this is a listening experience as panoramic and exciting as our Lone Star State.\r\nTRACK LISTING:Silver Bells - Bobby Bridger / Ring Christmas Bells - 14K / What Child Is This? - Eric Johnson and Van Wilks / Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas - Julie Christensen / The Lord of the Dance - Arthur Brown / Pretty Paper - Gary P. Nunn / Little Drummer Boy-Do You Hear What I Hear - Pressure / Silent Night - Willie Nelson / Mason Dixon's On The Line - Jerry Jeff Walker / On This Christmas Night - B.J. Thomas / We Three Kings - Beto and the Fairlanes / The Christmas Song - Steven Fromholtz / Santa Claus is Back in Town - Rusty Weir / Please Come Home For Christmas - Marcia Ball / Christmas Hymn - Karen Kraft / A Special Sish- B.W. Stevenson

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DICKY OVERBEY & BOBBY FLORES
Christmas In Ol' San Antone
Musicians; Dicky Overbey-Steel Guitar / Bobby Flores-Fiddle, Guitars, Mandolin / Jim Loessberg-Drums / Jake Hooker-Bass / Randy Reinhard-Piano\r\nTRACK LISTING: Away In A Manger / O Come, All Ye Faithful / O Holy Night / Silent Night / Joy To The World / Silver Bells / O Little Town of Bethlehem / What Child Is This / In Excelsis Deo / The First Noel

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SUZY BOGGUSS
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
TRACK LISTING: 1. Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas / 2. Mr. Santa / 3. Sleigh Ride / 4. Do You Hear What I Hear / 5. Winter Wonderland / 6. I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day / 7. Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer / 8. Two-Step 'Round The Christmas Tree / 9. Baby It's Cold Outside - (Duet with Delbert McClinton) / 10. Through Your Eyes / 11. O Holy Night / 12. Jingle Bells\r\nFans of Nashville hit-maker Suzy Bogguss and those in the market for a well-sung, polite folk-country Christmas album with a light dusting of swing will find Have Yourself... ringing their bells. Others, despite the record's virtues, may find it a bit dull. Bogguss obviously loves the mostly well known holiday tunes here but rarely brings much to them beyond her clean, Ronstadt-like vocal lines. Support includes longtime collaborator and friend Chet Atkins, Ricky Skaggs, and Delbert McClinton (the latter on a remake of "Baby It's Cold Outside"). With a new disc on the horizon, one hopes for more of the spunk Bogguss brought to early-'90s country radio. --Rickey Wright

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The Legendary Country Christmas
TRACK LISTING: 1. Joy to the World (Mickey Gilley) / 2. What Child Is This (Crystal Gayle) / 3.Away in a Manger (Waylon Jennings) / 4. O Holy Night (Larry Gatlin) / 5. It Came Upon a Midnight Clear (Bill Anderson) / 6. If We Make It Through December (Merle Haggard) / 7. Hallelujah (Crystal Gayle) / 8. Jingle Bells (Porter Wagoner) / 9. O Little Town of Bethlehem (Mickey Gilley) / 10. Santa Claus & Popcorn (Merle Haggard) / 11. O Come, All Ye Faithful (Waylon Jennings) / 12.All I Want for Christmas (Dear Is You) (Loise Mandrell) / 13.Silent Night (Louise Mandrell w/ Pedro Thomas) / 14.Up on the House Top (Boxcar Willie)

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LYNN ANDERSON
Home For the Holidays
1. Jingle Bell Rock / 2. Silver Bells / 3. The Christmas Song / 4. Angels Song / 5. Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas / 6. White Christmas / 7. I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus / 8. / 9. Winter Wonderland / 10. Jingle Bells 11. Home For The Holidays / 12. Santa Baby

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KELLY WILLIS & BRUCE ROBISON
Happy Holidays
Just in time for the holidays! Kelly Willis and her spouse Bruce Robison both have a knack for writing simple, emotionally straightforward country tunes, and they know how to make them work in the studio with plenty of heart and soul and a low level of extraneous fluff. So it's good to see them release a collaborative album at last, even if it's a modest Christmas-themed effort, and Happy Holidays finds the couple in fine form together. Dominated by covers (Robison contributes the album's sole original, "Oklahoma Christmas," which sounds like a more concise and less snarky variation on Robert Earl Keen's "Merry Christmas from the Family"), Happy Holidays moves back and forth between seasonal torch songs (Willis sounds sexy indeed on "Santa Baby," and she and Robison are both playful and sensuous on "Baby, It's Cold Outside"), somber but celebratory numbers such as "In the Bleak Midwinter" and "A Winter's Tale" (delivered respectively by Willis and Robison with feeling and dignity), and twangy Yuletide tunes, such as Charlie Louvin's "Shut in at Christmas," Buck Owens' "Santa Looked a Lot Like Daddy," and the tongue-in-cheek "Please Daddy Don't Get Drunk." While the production and arrangements are elegant and concise, this hardly sounds like a tossed-together Christmas quickie, with the headliners and their backing musicians presenting these songs with care and affection, and if this isn't the twang-tastic holiday disc some might have expected, it delivers equal portions of taste, passion and great music, and anyone with an ear for either Willis or Robison will want to have this on hand for their tree-trimming party. - Mark Deming

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TISH HINOJOSA
From Texas for a Christmas Night
A bilingual holiday CD with wide appeal that adds new material to selections released in 1991 on her Memorabilia Navidenia album on Watermelon Records. Originally recorded as a holiday gift on cassette for friends, the album was officially released after the copies she put on sale at Waterloo Records in Austin immediately sold out. The album then enjoyed huge and consistent sales.\r\nFrom Texas For A Christmas Night adds a broad selection of new recordings to the original and traditional songs from before: a traditional Ecuadorian Christmas song ("La Baca Mariposa"); Walter Hyatt's "In A Christmas Dream;" a new Hinojosa original ("For A Christmas Night"), a piquant rendition of "Silent Night;" and a traditional Sephardic Jewish Hanukah song from Spain ("Hanukia"). It is a lovely holiday document with cultural significance and year-round

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ASYLUM STREET SPANKERS
A Christmas Spanking
1. intro / 2. You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch / 3. Merry Christmas Baby / 4. What Are You Doing New Year's Eve? / 5. Zat You, Santa Claus? /6. Baby, It's Cold Outside /7. 12.25.61 / 8. Blue Christmas / 9. Mele Kalikimaka /10. We Three Kings / 11. Silent Night /12. Red Nosed Reindeer Blues / 13. Linus and Lucy / 14. Trim Your Tree / 15. The Christmas Song / 16. Far Away Christmas Blues

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EL ORBITS
Holiday Album
Highly recommended!!! Fifteen swingin' holiday favorites plus the brilliant Giorgio Angelini-directed video for the opening track, "Sleigh Ride."

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ALBERT AND GAGE
One More Christmas
Featuring special Christmas songs performed with acoustic reverence and swinging spirit\r\n1. One More Christmas / 2. Baby It's Cold Outside / 3. The Angels Cried / 4. Mr. and Mrs. Santa Claus / 5. Little Toy Trains / 6. Christmas Everyday / 7. Un flambeau, Jeannette Isabelle / 8. Must Be Tonight / 9. Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas / 10. Linus and Lucy / 11. River / 12. Go Tell It On The Mountain

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THE GEEZINSLAWS
Christmas Double
CD single features "Lighten Up It's Christmas" and "Santa Claus Is Back In Town"

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DAVE ALEXANDER
Swingin' into Christmas

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RED DIRT RANGERS
Happy Holidays From
A special three song holiday CD. Features Prince's "1999," "Ranger's Lullabye," and "Used To Be."

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HOLIDAY MUSIC